Table of contents for Music in central Java : experiencing music, expressing culture / Benjamin Brinner.
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Foreword
Preface
CD Track List
1. First Hearings
Introduction
What Is a Gamelan?
Gamelan Performance Contexts in Solo: Life Cycles and Musical Cycles
Cyclicity and Coincidence
Music in the Everyday
Patronage and Sociopolitical Change
Social Status, Language, and Interaction
Gamelan at the Radio Station
Similarities and Differences
Categories and Cross-Cultural (Mis)Communication
Conclusion: Three Themes
Flexibility of Frameworks and Processes
Appropriateness
Interconnectedness
2. A Sense of Time
Making and Marking Musical Time: Gongs and Drums
Cyclicity and Colotomic Function
Drumming
Lancaran Drum Patterns
Gongs, Drums, and the Flexibility of Time
3. Gamelan, Tuning, and Instrumental Melody
Gamelan Tunings
Tuning Systems: Slendro and Pelog
Gamelan Instruments
Instrumental Melody
Melody and Elaboration
Balungan, Peking, and Bonang
"Landrang Asmaradana"
4. Songs, Singers, and Gamelan
Social Aspects of Singing
Poetry, Song, and Gamelan
Conclusion
5. Melodic Elaboration and Training in the Arts
Rebab, Gender, and Other Elaborating Instruments
Cengkok, Variation, and the Transmission of Musical Knowledge
6. Shadows and Tales
Wayang in Pangkah Village
Javanese Shadow Plays
The Stories and the Telling: The Main Elements
Physical Setup
Plots and Plot Sources
Characters and Character Types
Language and Voice
Movement Patterns
Dramatic Structure: Schemata of Various Sizes
Conclusion
7. Music for Motion and Emotion--Wayang Kulit
"Brajadenta Balela"
Wayang Repertoire
Music for Expressing Emotion: Sulukan
Music for Accompanying Motion: Gendhing Lampah
Music for Setting a Scene: Gendhing
Return to "Brajadenta Balela"
Flexibility and Appropriateness
Conventions and Innovations
8. Java and Beyond
Pak Cokro
Interconnectedness: Theater, Dance, and Music
Educational Institutions
Regionalism and the Dominance of Solonese Style
Java and the Rest of Indonesia
Java and the World
Conclusion
Glossary
References
Resources
Index
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Music -- Indonesia -- Java -- History and criticism.
Music -- Social aspects -- Indonesia -- Java.
Gamelan -- Indonesia -- Java.